Day: June 11, 2026

Just What DC Needs

There are approximately 15oo lobbyists on K Street and now the DoD is trying to make it easier for more corrupting money to be available….

As it pushes for a record breaking $1.5 trillion defense budget, the Department of Defense wants lawmakers to water down restrictions on the infamous revolving door between the Pentagon and industry, inviting more undue influence from the defense sector.

The DoD’s legislative proposal, submitted to Congress for consideration in the FY 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), tosses out key lobbying restrictions introduced by the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2017. It remains unclear whether the proposal will be included in the base text of the Senate version of the NDAA, which has not been released.

The McCain restrictions prevented recently departed officials from lobbying the Defense Department or Armed Forces for two years following retirement. But the new DoD provision would only impose this two year “cooling off” period on former defense officials who want to lobby in the specific military agency or Pentagon office where they used to work.

The DoD claims it needs to do this because the limits now in place “may restrict the Department’s access to the knowledge and expertise of its former personnel” and thus could have an “adverse effect on [the department’s] recruitment and retention.”

As such the bill also eliminates McCain’s two-year cooling off requirement for “behind-the-scenes” activities, which include the “preparation and planning activities, research and other background work” that can support a company’s lobbying activities. The DoD asserts that measures restricting these behind the scenes lobbying efforts are difficult to enforce.

Ben Freeman, the director of the Quincy Institute’s Democratizing Foreign Policy Program, calls the Pentagon’s rationale a “cop-out.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/revolving-door-pentagon/

This admin will do anything to make the corruption more intense….

Personally I think the cooling off period should be at least 5 years with 10 being the best idea.

We have enough criminals with buckets of money for Congress and the admin….it is time to close that corrupting appendage of government down for all time.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

That ‘Secret’ Autopsy

The DNC has seen to the exposure of the public in the reasons why they were so beaten in 2024….my thought it is decaying corpse of a political party.

The 2024 election “was a punch to the gut, and people were pissed off,” Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Ken Martin wrote Thursday in a statement accompanying the report’s release. “How, we all asked, could Democrats have lost to Donald Trump again? How did we blow through billions of dollars? And where do we go from here?”

The resulting report paints a bleak picture for Democrats. “We must admit and accept some hard truths about our Party,” it cautions. “Since the high point of the 2008 Obama landslide…the Democratic Party has vacillated between stagnation and retrogression. In doing so, we have lost the confidence we once received from everyday Americans—and election results show it. In the sixteen tumultuous years since that historic election, Democrats have lost ground at every level of government.”

This is actually the first time in more than a decade that Democrats have publicly taken any such introspection.

https://reason.com/2026/05/22/democrats-tried-to-bury-2024-election-autopsy/

The party did not need this ‘autopsy’….The party had the wrong candidates, the wrong issues, and were controlled by special interests….see how hard was that?

Come on let’s be honest…..the Dems were and still are….pathetic….

Well, the much-ballyhooed autopsy on the 2024 election has arrived from Democratic National Committee’s headquarters, and it is a shame it didn’t stay buried in a trashcan in one of their offices deep inside the Beltway, and as far away from real people as possible.

Before moving on just as quickly as I can, from this unmitigated mess of typos, redactions, double-talking and sniping — and better yet, the leadership who allowed it — I want to underline some finer points, and hard-earned lessons we can take from it, and the disastrous 2024 campaign season.

First, given all the unprofessionalism, money-wasting, bickering, and out and out dysfunction in the party, it’s a wonder Kamala Harris didn’t lose by 25 points. It is clear that because of a series of self-inflicted wounds, the Democrats were not ready to do battle during the most important election in U.S. history.

https://www.alternet.org/dem-autopsy/

Now the DNC is scrambling….but it matters not for they will continue to lose….the DNC purged any and all members that had good sound ideas that conflicted with the special interest agents that now dwell within the DNC.

A new election is on the horizon….does anyone see anything that will lead us to believe that the Dems are capable of winning a national election?  So far most of the Dems have done nothing but complain….that will not fly in the next election.

I do not see it….do you?

Time to find a political party that will actually treat you and the rest of us with some sort of respect.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

“I Love Inflation”

Words uttered by our dear clueless leader when he heard the new report that inflation is at a 3 year high……

… data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Wednesday showed overall prices in May posted a yearly increase of 4.2%, marking the highest rate of inflation since 2023. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy costs, posted a yearly increase of 2.9%, the highest rate since September 2023.

Why would any president say such bullshit when most of the country is struggling under the pressure of this number?

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said, “I love the inflation” after being asked if he was concerned about new consumer price index data that showed the annual inflation rate at 4.2%, a three-year high.

Trump, speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, also predicted that inflation is “going to come down like a rock” after the United States’ war against Iran is over.

The president linked that prediction to a confusing statement about the U.S. “taking” oil and ships.

“No, I love it, the numbers were great,” Trump said when a reporter asked him about the CPI number issued earlier in the morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why?” Trump said. “Because as soon as this war is over, you know I can say it now … you know we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil.”

“Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran, until right now,” Trump said.

(cnbc.com)

Donny thinks the numbers will come down once he figures out how to end the war with Iran.  (Don’t hold your breath that could take awhile)

Trump predicted that inflation would “come down like a rock” when the war was over, CBS News reports. Trump claimed the US had reached “the best economy we’ve ever hit” before the conflict, citing record stock market highs.

So much manure spread and the worse part about it is there are those the believe this stink.

Just a reminder….“Trump promised repeatedly that he would ‘end inflation’ starting on day one but by almost every measure, he’s failed to achieve those goals,” Beyer said. “And far from lowering costs, his tariffs have only made the affordability crisis worse for the American people.”

Is his plan working?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”